First of all, I would like to thank you far your effort on the GNU Pascal compiler. I'm new to this list and I have a couple of questions.
1) Mailing list archives Are there no mailing list archives after June 2001 ? I can hardly imagine that there was no activity after that time.
2) GPC and GCC 3.0 What is the status of making GPC work with GCC 3.0 ? The last discussions I found on that topic were in the mailing list archives from June, and at that time, it didn't seem to work yet.
3) GPC & GCC integration Some time ago, there was once a short dicussion of merging GPC into the GCC sources. What happened to this ? Are there still plans to include GPC with GCC ?
4) GPC release I think the last released version of GPC was 2.0 and that is already many years ago. Are there any plans to make a new release of GPC in a forseeable future ? I think the lack of current release version is what makes GPC less popular to projects like Free Pascal for instance.
Well, I hope I did not ask questions that were too stupid. Have a good day !
Carlo Mecx wrote:
- Mailing list archives Are there no mailing list archives after
June 2001 ? I can hardly imagine that there was no activity after that time.
At this time the mailing lists have migrated to a new server, and AFAIK noone has set up the archives there yet. :-(
- GPC and GCC 3.0 What is the status of making GPC work with GCC
3.0 ? The last discussions I found on that topic were in the mailing list archives from June, and at that time, it didn't seem to work yet.
No, it doesn't work yet. There will be some work to do. Until then, gcc-2.8.1 and 2.95.x are the only supported backend versions.
- GPC & GCC integration Some time ago, there was once a short
dicussion of merging GPC into the GCC sources. What happened to this ? Are there still plans to include GPC with GCC ?
Yes, after the update to gcc-3.0, this will (hopefully) only be a small step.
- GPC release I think the last released version of GPC was 2.0
and that is already many years ago. Are there any plans to make a new release of GPC in a forseeable future ? I think the lack of current release version is what makes GPC less popular to projects like Free Pascal for instance.
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
Frank
On 7 Sep 2001, at 1:22, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
I agree.
By the way, back on July 4, you wrote regarding a change you made to "gpc" to use "ld" instead of "collect2" if the latter isn't present on the system:
I'm copying this part. I can't check it here. So when this will have been uploaded (perhaps next week since I'm also trying to solve another issue before uploading anything; probably the next GPC version number greater than today), anyone who has this problem and used a work-around, please try it without the work-around then and tell us if it works.
I've been looking ever since, so that I could test the change, but the next GPC version has never appeared on agnes.
(I know, "use CVS," right? ;-) But the broader question is whether or not the GPC source snapshots will be made available again via FTP. Or is CVS the only option now?)
-- Dave
J. David Bryan wrote:
I'm copying this part. I can't check it here. So when this will have been uploaded (perhaps next week since I'm also trying to solve another issue before uploading anything; probably the next GPC version number greater than today), anyone who has this problem and used a work-around, please try it without the work-around then and tell us if it works.
I've been looking ever since, so that I could test the change, but the next GPC version has never appeared on agnes.
(I know, "use CVS," right? ;-) But the broader question is whether or not the GPC source snapshots will be made available again via FTP. Or is CVS the only option now?)
Nope, CVS has also lagged behind (all in the following of the server move). Both should be up to date again soon, but ultimately, that's up to Peter, and I can't speak for him.
Frank
On 7 Sep 2001, at 1:22, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
I think it's time to release 2.1 (or whatever). As long as the user is kept aware of the bugs, I don't see much problem.
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Francisco Stefano Wechsler wrote:
On 7 Sep 2001, at 1:22, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
I think it's time to release 2.1 (or whatever). As long as the user is kept aware of the bugs, I don't see much problem.
The current version won't build on IRIX as I pointed out recently - unlike the good-old 2.0.
miklos
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
Good idea. Pick a recient version that seems to have the least amount of "I'm having trouble installing gpc on my xxx" mail in the mailing list.
Russ
Russell Whitaker wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Well, we could, of course, label any arbitrary version GPC 2.1 or something. There are a number of known bugs, but far less than there were in GPC 2.0, so perhaps we should just do that. Any opinions?
Good idea. Pick a recient version that seems to have the least amount of "I'm having trouble installing gpc on my xxx" mail in the mailing list.
Because of the lag (see my other mail) and the problems that are there with the last released version (20010623) and a number of changes made since then, we'll have to wait at least a little longer now (but perhaps not too long then).
Frank
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